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kick the bucket vs succumb

succumb vs kick the bucket

kick the bucket and succumb both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
kick the bucket No No Yes No
succumb No No Yes No
As verbs, succumb is a hyponym of kick the bucket; that is, succumb is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than kick the bucket:
  • kick the bucket: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
  • succumb: be fatally overwhelmed
Other hyponyms of kick the bucket include abort, asphyxiate, stifle, suffocate, buy it, pip out, drown, predecease, famish, starve, fall, yield.
kick the bucket (verb) succumb (verb)
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life consent reluctantly
be fatally overwhelmed
Difference between kick the bucket and succumb

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